Occasionally students’ actions resonate beyond the higher-ed bubble, forcing universities to respond in the only way they know how: by creating investigatory panels that end with compulsory sensitivity workshops. And no one wants that. Education is about learning, however, and current students can learn from their predecessors’ mistakes.

Real change requires the founding of institutions, of political parties, of news organizations, of local and neighborhood associations, of economic clubs and discussion groups that think about the interests of the nation, not of a single group or faction.